Network Inventory – hardware software inventory audit

Overview

An award-winning network inventory solution for organizations of any sizes. It offers features for remote audit of every PC in your network without having to install client modules. By using EMCO Network Inventory you can get detailed hardware, software inventory and licensing information from remote PCs within seconds. Powerful reporting module helps you save a lot of time for preparing asset audit reports.

How much effort does your IT department spend on auditing growing number of PCs, hardware and software upgrade planning, licenses tracking, calculation of infrastructure costs and other related tasks? If you want to increase the efficiency and find a time-saving solution, try this modern network inventory system, which may become your indispensable assistant assigned to care about audit of your network computers.

We analyzed experience of IT departments of more than ninety companies, organizations and educational institutions and created EMCO Network Inventory, our award-winning computer inventory system. It's designed for performing a quick and painless software audit for different size networks - from small to enterprise-scale.

Network Inventory: Usage Benefits

How can EMCO Network Inventory be helpful in your day-to-day work? It allows collecting various information about software, hardware and application licenses from remote computers and gives fast and exact answers to questions like:

How many desktops have Vista?
On which computers is Photoshop CS3 installed?
Which computers are running under Windows XP and have less than 1 Gb RAM?
Are the available software licenses sufficient or are any additional ones required?
How much extra hardware is required for the operating system upgrade?
Which desktops lack free space on their hard drives?
Are there any unwanted files like .AVI and who has them?
Which PCs are equiped by DVD?

Software Inventory: Essentials for Effective Software Asset Management

Information about software assets installed on your network computers gives you a strong advantage in your everyday work. Having software audit information, you can easily improve security and OS health control as well as detect unwanted applications and applications that require an upgrade. Licenses tracking features optimizes your software purchases because you know, not just guess, how many licenses are needed. The following data reported by software inventory module help you save your efforts for coping with software-related problems in your organization:
Basic OS information: name, version, installation date, service pack and hotfixes. System and environment settings: services, running processes, shares, startup commands, and scheduled tasks. List of installed applications, including: name, version, publisher, installation path and installation date. Aggregated software audit information for entire network: total number of installations for every OS and application, and the list of PCs they are installed on. Software license summary for entire network: total number of available, used and required licenses for every application. Changes between scans: list of freshly installed and uninstalled applications. Custom scan results, useful for detecting specific applications: existence of a particular file, registry entry or service.

Hardware Inventory: Detailed Remote PC Audit

How often are we unable to make right decision simply because we lack information? When using EMCO Network Inventory, you will have up-to-date hardware inventory information to take effective decisions. You will be able to plan upgrades more accurately and to minimize upgrade costs by identifying how the replaced devices could be reused. Many hours can be spared in case of problems with particular hardware since you will know exactly what PCs require your attention. The following reported data and features help you to keep hardware assets under control:
Basic information: processor, motherboard, graphic card, hard drive, CD/DVD drive and network card. Extended information (if available): manufacturer, model name, serial number and manufacturing date. Settings and parameters depending on the hardware type: number of memory banks, maximum and installed memory capacity, total and free space on the hard drive, MAC address, graphics resolution, etc. Aggregated hardware inventory summary for entire network: total quantities of each hardware type, list of PCs where it is used. Query reports with custom conditions: for example, PCs with 1 GB of memory, PCs lacking free space on the hard drive, etc.

Report, Chart and Export Tools

Usually, it's not enough to just collect network asset information: tons of collected data also need to be transformed into different reports. A short summary will be fine for your boss but your IT department needs a detailed report. Our IT asset management solution saves you from redundant paperwork and weekends wasted for report preparation. Using the following features, you can always produce any required report easily and on time:
Generation of predefined print-ready reports in various formats: PDF, RTF, HTML, Plain text, JPEG. Report builder for creating custom reports with extended features: report data manager, report designer and preview. Charting feature ensures easy data perception and illustration. Different chart types are available. All on-screen data can be exported to MS Excel, MS Word, PDF, HTML, Text file and other formats. Export customization: headers/footers, included fields selection, data formats, field width, etc. Data filters in reports ensure that only data meeting pre-defined criteria is included.

Why EMCO Network Inventory?

Chosen by industry leaders, small business, government, non-profit organizations and educational institutions, EMCO Network Inventory is one of the most popular audit tools on the market serving more then 1 million desktops all over the world. Why do our customers choose this product? What makes it unique?

Collecting information from remote PCs without having to install clients on them. Scan of every PC takes just a few seconds and runs invisibly for the user.
No special requirements for software or network configuration - you can run it from any PC with network administrator's credentials.
Wide and detailed scope of information extracted from remote computers. It includes hundreds of parameters - everything required for inventorying: from OS version, processor and memory information to list of installed fonts and system uptime.
Intuitive data representation, which helps you navigate through collected data. Easy-to-use interface allows you to get results with just a few mouse clicks.
Powerful reporting and exporting tools make asset report creation effortless - you just need to select what information and what computers to include.

Pricing policy for the product depends on the number of served nodes. This makes our automatic IT asset management solution affordable for companies and organizations of all sizes. With the price staring from $9.15 to $0.70 per computer node (depending on the selected edition and number of nodes), EMCO Network Inventory can significantly reduce costs for asset management already after first few usages.

Select Edition

EMCO Network Inventory is available as Professional and Enterprise editions with different features and prices. Below you can see high-level features comparison of the two editions. You can find a detailed comparison on the Features page. Full price options are represented on the Purchase page.

	Starter Edition	Professional Edition	Enterprise Edition
System Information
OS information: name, version, installation date
OS updates: service packs, hotfixes
System runtime configuration: services, startup commands, scheduled tasks, user accounts, running processes
System environment: environment variables, program folders, drive mappings, ODBC data sources, network protocols, fonts
Hardware Inventory
PC summary: processor, motherboard, graphic card, hard drive, CD/DVD drive, network card, monitors, printers
Memory banks: installed and total capacity
Device information (if available): manufacturer, model name, serial number, manufacturing date
Settings and parameters depending on hardware type
Software Inventory
List of installed applications
Aggregated information: total number for each installation
Licenses tracking: determine the number of available, used and required licenses
Changes tracking: compare lists of installed applications between two scans
Remote file system customizable scan
Remote registry customizable scan
Report, Chart and Export Tools
Predefined reports generation in PDF, RTF, HTML, Plain text, JPEG
Data export to MS Excel, MS Word, PDF, HTML, Text file and other formats
Custom reports creation
Custom query builder
Price	from $99.00	from $149.00	from $229.00

Licenses issued for Network Inventory versions prior to 5.2.4 are equal to Enterprise Edition licenses.

Awards

Year after year, EMCO Network Inventory receives various awards from editors and readers of leading IT resources. These awards are acknowledgement of the advanced product design, good usability and our commitment to quality.

Testimonials

Applied to: Network Inventory

We have been looking for Inventory software for several months and we have evaluated several systems. Emco was recommended by one of our suppliers, Bennet's IT Solutions (www.bits.co.za). We tested the software and were very happy with the data collected and the pricing of the software.

Our big problem with more expensive packages was that the cost did not always justify the functionality. Our own in-house developers could write code to collect the data, but we wanted an off the shelf product that presented this data well. Emco was chosen because of the good cost and functionality it offered.

I have also looked at some of Emco's other products, and we may purchase some of this in the future.

Henry Dixon, Senior Technical Support Specialist
Goodyear South Africa | www.goodyear.co.za

We are very stasified with the product

Applied to: MSI Package Builder

I am working in TV 2 in Norway, and I am responsible for the desktops in the company, that is defining a standard and controlling OS deployment as well as deployment of applications. I have been working for a year with another product, that just didn't do the job. Our msi packages sometimes failed without a obvious reason.

I started looking at other software applications for creating msi packages easily and I tried Emco as the last product. I found after browsing the internet, and I have tried it for a few weeks. We are very stasified with the product because it is so easy to use, and not least that it gets the job done.

Espen H. Haga, IT Department
TV 2 AS | www.tv2.no

It saves me literally weeks of time

Applied to: Network Inventory

I love the software. It saves me literally weeks of time. I can gather information about our entire network of 50 Pcs in less than two minutes. Good reporting & charting options.

Steve Harris, I.T. & CAD Manager
Cottee Parker Architects Pty Ltd. | www.cotteeparker.com.au

A few clicks of the mouse and I have all the control I need

Applied to: Remote Desktop

As IT Manager for EMCOR Service: Mesa Energy Systems, I maintain a Win2K environment with approximately 100 nodes distributed over 4 locations throughout California connected via a frame. I've experimented with many different remote desktop solutions. They required unreliable or tiresome remote clients to be installed before use. Some of them simply crammed too much functionality into the product resulting in software unnecessarily large, complex, as well as unstable. All of them were far too expensive to license.

I then discovered the EMCO Remote Desktop. The product was straightforward, and I was up and running without even reading a user manual. No remote client installs. No messy video drivers. Add or Identify remote workstations easily. Just a username, a password, and a few clicks of the mouse and I have all the control I need. The price is amazingly affordable. It works, and it works well . . .And I'm only on version 1.0! I look forward to investigating the other EMCO products.

Rob Wagner
EMCOR Service: Mesa Energy Systems, Inc. | www.emcorgroup.com

We have found both products to be extremely useful

Applied to: Remote Desktop

We have been using both Remote Audit and Remote Desktop from EMCO and have found both products to be extremely useful. In both cases they replaced existing software with software that was easy to use and much more useful.

Michael, Director of Information Technology
Albertus Magnus College | www.albertus.edu

So far I have nothing but praise for this software

Applied to: Network Inventory

The EMCO Network Inventory 3.0 software has enabled me to get an overall view of the status of the company computer systems. It has done this for me effortlessly and has taken all the leg work out of what would have been a very tedious task. Additionally the software has done this with no interruption of the end users therefore company work output has been unaffected.

So far I have nothing but praise for this software but have yet to use it to its full potential. Thank you EMCO.

Mark Hayward
TM Group PLC | www.tmgroup-plc.co.uk

Your product does all the things I have always wanted

Applied to: Network Inventory | MSI Packge Builder

We have purchased EMCO Network Inventory 4.5 and EMCO MSI Package Builder. I found your website via google, whilst searching for a network inventory tool which allowed you to search for specific files and their version. I then found your MSI Package Builder to be very helpful and both packages are very user friendly.

The product we currently use for network inventory, will certainly be replaced with EMCO Network Inventory, as your product does all the things I have always wanted. Your product is also much more cost effective, which allowed me to be able to purchase your MSI package.

You have many interesting packages on your web site, which I will be looking at and evaluating over the course of this year, with the view to putting into our budget for 2007. I just wish I had found your web site before now.

Darren Lloyd, IS Supervisor
EMS | www.ems-online.co.uk

Network Inventory product is and continues to be a great tool for us

Applied to: Network Inventory

EMCO's Network Inventory product is and continues to be a great tool for us. I was looking for a network inventory product that did not need an agent to be installed. My experience was that installing and maintaining agent installations on all nodes was cumbersome and time consuming. My search led me to EMCO's Network Inventory product. It is so easy to use and intuitive that in 30 minutes I was able to download, install and run a network inventory. It accurately gathers all the information that we need to track. In addition we can run custom scan for specific versions of programs or specific file types such as .mp3's and track our licensing compliance. Thanks for such a valuable and easy to use tool EMCO!

Brigid Gray
Pima County Assessor | www.asr.co.pima.az.us

This is a excellent time saver for Network Administrators

Applied to: Network Inventory

We found EMCO Network Inventory provides comprehensive inventory information with little effort. This is a excellent time saver for Network Administrators. It also helps Administrators, to check monitor users who install software (like screen savers and others) without Network Administrator's knowledge, and get into problem.

Sundar Pillay, IT Manager
RHI Refractories Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

A great value for your money

Applied to: Remote Desktop

Administering networks is something all system administrators do on a daily basis. Unfortunately, minor issues and major problems tend to happen from time to time and in most cases require immediate and resolute actions, as any network downtimes affect the whole company and its clients. However, sometimes problems come when they are least expected - for instance, when the system administrator is away or on a sick leave and no substitute is available. If you are a system administrator looking for a versatile remote administration tool, EMCO Remote Desktop Professional is just what the doctor ordered!

This compact, affordable and multifunctional utility from EMCO Software provides the essential toolkit that allows system administrators to manage wired and wireless Microsoft networks remotely in an efficient and expedient manner. This approach also allows you to troubleshoot network problems from a centralized location, which is time and money-consuming. Remote Desktop Professional collects various network data about hardware and software installed on network computers and tasks currently running on them. The advanced built-in remote task manager is very similar to that found in NT-based systems, so you won't have any problems getting used to it. The tool supports Windows Vista and does not require DCOM/RPC to operate.

If in doubts about choosing the right software for remote network administration, look no further than Remote Desktop Professional. A great value for your money, it offers everything necessary for resolving network problems in a wink of an eye!

Technical Editor
3d2f.com | www.3d2f.com

Thanks EMCO! Keep up the good work!

Remote Audit (Network Inventory) is fantastic tool! It really takes the guesswork out of the auditing equation. We've even been able to create web-based reports thanks to the advanced exporting features. I'd highly recommend this product to any administrator who is looking for an economical and easy to use auditing utility. Thanks EMCO! Keep up the good work!

Trevor Wise
OptiFrame Software | www.optiframe.com

Remote Audit 2.0 was the best value software of all the tools we investigated

When CCH undertook to migrate all its staff from Windows NT to Windows 2000 Professional, we needed a reliable, cost effective and easy to use software audit tool. EMCO's Remote Audit 2.0 provided us with a perfect solution. Remote Audit doesn't require a client or messy log in scripts meaning it is quickly deployed so you can get on with the job in hand, instead of investing time configuring and preparing the tool.

What's more Remote Audit 2.0 was the best value software of all the tools we investigated and was implemented within 24 hours of purchase across the entire network. We never would have thought that an Icelandic company would have provided the solution to an Australian software issue!

Sarah Baxter, Project Manager
CCH Australia | www.cch.com.au

Well done EMCO!

We chose EMCO Remote Audit for our organization and it has proved an invaluable aid in keeping our software in line with the current licensing laws. Well done EMCO!

Martin O'Donnell, IT Manager
De Montfort Insurance Company PLC | www.demontfort.com

Remote Audit 2.0 has proved invaluable

As an I.S. Support Administrator I am faced with supporting around 180 PC's, with a mixture operating systems, mainly Windows NT 4.0, a number of Windows 2000 and also few Win 95/98. With constant company restructures and high staff turnover keeping an up to date audit of all our Computers was proving very difficult, so it was necessary to find a program to help. After trying several different products from varying Software companies, with both a very competitive price and great functionality I purchased EMCO Remote Audit 2.0 (200 nodes).

Remote Audit 2.0 has proved invaluable, it is able with very minor network overhead, interrogate all the PC's on your network and report back with all essential information including detailed information on Processor type/speed, Memory, Disk Details (utilization etc.), operating system, service pack, detailed listing of installed application, detail of installed printers, local network shares... and the list goes on. With both Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 it will also pick up WMI information such as Manufacture Serial number etc.

Network Audit 2.0 unlike many competitors doesn't require it/you to install anything to the PC's being audited, it simply and quickly queries each PC and stores all the data in a common database. Remote Audit can also export audited information to a variety of different file formats very simply for further analysis. Overall Remote Audit 2.0 has been a very handy piece of software, with its very competitive price, great functionality and user friendly interface I would recommend it to anyone.

Maxim Ghest, I.S. Support Administrator
IFS England | www.ifs.inchcape.co.uk

Thanks for providing this excellent piece of software

Since using Remote Audit 2.0 we have been able to monitor our computer systems for software that is not supposed to be installed on clients machines. We have also used the product to help with our upgrade from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 by finding which computers needed to be upgraded and what was previously installed on the systems. The time saved by using Remote Audit 2.0 greatly out ways the initial cost of the software which is of great value anyway.

Thanks for providing this excellent piece of software to make our IT lives a bit more bearable ;)

Lean March
SATC | www.southaustralia.com

The Remote Audit helped me immeasurably in doing a Windows NT-XP upgrade

The Remote Audit helped me immeasurably in doing a Windows NT-XP upgrade by verifying hardware assets...it defined who should have their system replaced or just upgraded, gave me a list of people left, and also looked out for software exceptions.

Kevin Money
Iroquis | www.iroquis.com

Effective, Easy to use, Simple and Straight Forward - Recommended

Applied to: MSI Package Builder

Easy to un-pack existing .msi files and repackage into your own requirements, easy to create your own new packages, great for monitoring and capturing software during installs to create your own thing. We didnt think we would use it as much as we have this has been excellent for our college of 420+ nodes. We have the now Enterprise edition. EMCO support is excellent. As good as any 50million dollar over priced over the top solution for MSI packaging and deployment. It gets the job done and well.

Feedback from download.com

This unique product is exactly what I need

Applied to: MSI Package Builder | Remote Installer

Time-to-time I should install software to user's computers and it always takes a long time and requires many efforts, because our offices are straggled over the building in the different floors. Time ago my colleague told me about that tool, which helps him a lot with software installation. Yesterday I had a task to install Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop tools to the 37 user desktops, so it was a good chance to try it on practice.

I spent 10 minutes for reading Quick Start in Help and created Adobe Acrobat MSI 10 minutes later. It was really exiting - I needed just to start monitoring, which tracks on changes performed on computer, then start Acrobat installation and after stopping of monitoring MSI can be automatically created. I can't believe that it's a truth, therefore I tried to install created MSI on different computers and it works well without any prompt to specifying a path for installation and other annoying things, which you should perform again and again when installing software on different computers. After trying functionality of installed Acrobat from created MSI package I found that it works by the same way as the standard distribution.

Magic of this tool continues when I started MSI Remote Installer, which is a part of the distribution. Using this tool I was able to select computers, which require Acrobat installation and install it from my computer. I repeated procedure also with Photoshop and it went smoothly as well.

A really unique tool - I spent less then one hour for playing with a tool and installing software on 37 computers - great result.

Feedback from download.com

Stable, reliable, and simple remote system for managing software deployment

Applied to: MSI Package Builder | Remote Installer

The EMCO Remote Installer/MSI Package Builder software suite has empowered our firm with a stable, reliable, and simple remote system for managing software deployment and removal across our network. The ability to easily generate your own custom .msi packages, and deploy them remotely network-wide... is _essential_ automation.

David Austin, Technical Director
ASGVis LLC | www.asgvis.com